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Abstract

HP’s StoreAll with Express Query is a scalable commercial file archiving product
that offers sophisticated file metadata management and search capabilities. A new
REST API enables fast, efficient searching to find all files that meet a given set
of metadata criteria and the ability to tag files with custom metadata fields. The
product brings together two significant systems: a scale out file system and a
metadata database based on LazyBase. In designing and building the combined
product, we identified several real-world issues in using a pipelined database
system in a distributed environment, and overcame several interesting design
challenges that were not contemplated by the original research prototype. This
paper highlights our experiences.